Comic History of England: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Comic History of England, credited to Bill Nye, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Comic History of England, by Bill Nye. Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye (1850 – 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. Jim "jimmowatt" Mowatt is a distinguished LibriVox volunteer, widely known for his continued devotion both to regularly producing the LibriVox Community Podcast and to regularly creating more and more history audiobooks for the public domain, renowned for his humor and his historically kind demeanor, lately recognized as holding a degree as well as a mic. In light of that new holding, in celebration of graduation, this bit of history has been recorded with Jim in mind, owing to all that we owe him, glowing with glee that we know him, it's what we've done just to show him that he's a jolly good fellow. (Summary by Anita and Alan)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Comic History of England
• Author credits: Bill Nye
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 2:53:46

Catalogue topics

• history
• humor
• england
• nye

Track guide

1. 00 Preface — 2:11
2. 01 Invasion of Caesar: The Discovery of Tin and Subsequent Enlightenment of Britain — 8:26
3. 02 The Various Roman Yokes: Their Growth, Degeneration, and Final Elimination — 7:05
4. 03 The Advent of the Angles: Causes Which Led to the Rehabilitation of Britain on New Lines — 9:14
5. 04 The Influx of the Danes: Facts Showing Conclusively Their Influence on the Britain of Today — 8:52
6. 05 The Troublous Middle Ages: Demonstrating a Short Reign for Those Who Travel at a Royal Gait — 8:07
7. 06 The Danish Oligarchy: Disaffections Attending Chronic Usurpation Proclivities — 10:32
8. 07 Other Disagreeable Claimants: Foreign Foibles Introduced, Only to be Expunged with Characteristic Pugnacity — 12:05
9. 08 The Norman Conquest: Complex Commingling of Facetious Accord and Implaccable Discord — 11:44
10. 09 The Feudal System: Successful Inauguration of Homogeneal Methods for Restricting Incompatable Demagogues — 6:43
11. 10 The Age of Chivalry: Light Dissertation on the Knights-Errant, Maids, Fools, Prelates, and Other Notorious Characters of that Period — 11:53
12. 11 Conquest of Ireland: Uncomfortable Effects Following the Cultivation of an Acquisitorial Propensity — 10:06
13. 12 Magna Charta Introduced: Slight Difficulties Encountered in Overcoming an Unpopular and Unreasonable Prejudice — 8:12
14. 13 Further Disagreements Recorded: Illustrating the Amiability of the Jew and the Perversity of the Scot — 8:35
15. 14 Irritability of the French: Interminable Dissension, Assisted by the Plague, Continues Reducing the Population — 9:50
16. 15 More Sanguinary Triumphs: Onward March of Civilization Graphically Delineated with the Historian's Usual Completeness — 10:48
17. 16 Unpleasant Caprices of Royalty: Introduction of Printing as a Subsidiary Aid in the Progress of Emancipation — 9:06
18. 17 Biography of Richard III: Being an Allegorical Panegyric of the Incontrovertible Machinations of an Egotistical Usurper — 7:11
19. 18 Disorder Still the Popular Fad: General Admixture of Pretenders, Religion, Politics, and Disgruntled Monarchs — 14:00

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